After climbing into the chair as pictured above, in the baby section of Target:

“I think I can take care of babies now! Whose baby is gonna be first?”

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Emma: “I lost a finger!”Me: “Um, what!?”Emma: “Oh I found it again.”Me: “Well that’s a relief.”Emma: “It would be hard to put a bandaid on a lost finger. Because it is a circle and bandaids don’t go in a circle. I don’t know what we would do!”

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Jose: “Emma, you need to listen.”Emma: “It’s not easy.”Jose: “It’s very easy, just listen to me.”Emma (grumpily): “It’s not easy for ME.”

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One evening we walk around the corner to the mailbox, and there are several cars parked there:

“Oh, who’s having a party at the mailbox?!”

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While in Corpus Christi, we go to see Alex and Krystle’s new apartment. Upon entering the complex and seeing the whole multi-unit building:

Emma: “How many people are in my city?”Me: “Well, lots. Hundreds and thousands.”Emma: “I think there might be twelve-ty thirty people. Twelve-ty thirty is a very big number.”

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Emma: “It’s just girls!”Me: “Yep, Daddy went to see his friend so it’s just the three of us for the whole weekend. What do you want to do this weekend?”Emma: “We could watch a movie?”Me: “We could.”Emma: “Yes! I like watching movies when someone goes away from our house.”

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Emma: “My baby is different than Daniel Tiger’s baby. His baby is a tiger and my baby Charlotte is not a tiger.”Me: “No, Charlotte’s definitely not a tiger.”Emma: “Yeah, my baby is a person.”

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Emma: “I think you sang that just a liiiiiiittle bit wrong.”

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Jose is outside with a headlamp.

Emma: “Dad, were you looking for spooky things?”

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We’re driving back to our old house from the new house. Emma has two small lemons that she picked off the tree in our new backyard.

Emma: “Mom I can’t put my shoe back on.”Me: “Why did you take it off?”Emma: “Because my foot was itchy.”Me: “Ok, well, you don’t need to put it on until we get home anyway.”Emma: “Yeah, and my lemons are in my shoe.”Me: “…Why are your lemons in your shoe?”Emma: “Because they think it is an airplane!” (then starts to sing and “fly” her shoe around) “Airplane shooooooe, airplane shoooooe.”

Emma: “I want to ride on a pony or a horse.”Me: “We can probably do that sometime.”Emma: “Or maybe a unicorn!”Me: “Well, I don’t know, unicorns are pretty hard to find.”Emma: “Maybe we can fly on an airplane to see one.”Me: “Well, where do you think there might be unicorns?”Emma: “Maybe at Disneyworld.”

Me: “Cinderella has a long name. C-i-n-d-e-r-e-l-l-a. That’s 10 letters. How many letters does your name have?”Emma: “Four letters.”Me: “Yep!”Emma: “I wish I had a long name like Sebastian or Cinderella.”

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Upon seeing this artist’s rendition of a prehistoric sea at the museum, she immediately noticed the turtle biting the alligator-y thing’s fin:

Emma: “Oh that’s not very nice!”

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First, when we saw a climbing wall as we drove past a park in Fort Worth:

Emma: “We can’t climb those walls because we don’t have sticky hands.”

And second, while watching a contestant fall into the water on American Ninja Warrier:

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I'm Sarah, a NASA engineer by day and quilter by night. I live in Houston with my husband and our two young daughters. I've had this ol' blog for more than 15 years, and these days it's home to my quilting work, snippets of family life, and occasional musings on my engineering career.